It would be really nice if jedit had a mode manager plugin that works the same way
macro manager plugin works. It seems like this should be nearly a cut+paste+search+replace
of the macro manager plugin, but i'm not up to the task and there might be some non-obvious
issues. However, if it is possible....
Dealing with modes in jedit is cumbersome. I want to be able to explain to experts
in minority languages how to set up a couple macros and modes to do some very customized
translation. the mode is for a tagging markup language. It isn't really appropriate
for preinstallation, but training non-experts how to deal with files in hidden directories
isn't really a viable alternative.
It seems like there is a pent up demand for this... too many modes to keep updated
for jedit initial download..
Bonus feature request:
Both the current macro manager plugin and a theoretical mode manager would provide
great niceness to jedit if they had within the manager dialog a manual remove and
manual install button. It's annoying to have to page up page down to change the mode
AND encoding when run conversion or paste sections into blank pages, when I only ever
use 3 or 4 of these modes, and only ever 2 of the encodings, Nice for the 1/25,000
that need it, but constant annoyance for the other 24,999 that everything is enabled
and requires so much command line/file management to deal with.
| Submitted | mike-y - 2016-05-01 16:12:34.130000 | Assigned | |
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| 2016-05-01 17:20:29.076000 daleanson |
I like this, great idea! Just a comment that may be useful to you in the mean time, there is a button to add (but not remove) mode files in jEdit, go to Utilities - Global Options - Editing, the button is at the bottom. |
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| 2016-05-01 19:21:45.103000 mike-y |
I'm using jedit 5.2.0 on osx Yosemite... I think I just let java 8 update to the latest
within the last couple days... (multiple computers, not sure which one or all of them
asked) I don't see a load mode button as you described.. !
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| 2016-05-02 04:17:21.022000 daleanson |
Yes, that button was added for jEdit 5.3. |
| 2016-05-02 20:32:34.266000 kerik-sf |
Regarding paging through encodings, in Global Options > Encodings, you can restrict
the list of selected encodings to only the ones you use. Then only these would appear
in buffer's properties, etc.
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| 2016-05-02 23:15:28.903000 daleanson |
Eric, thanks for the reminder about the encodings settings. Probably something similar would work for modes. |